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...most experienced practical adviser brought him consoling news. National Chairman Howard McGrath, who looked as if he had not slept since just before the Republican Convention, totted up the "sure" Truman delegates. It showed that the President would have at least 200 more first-ballot votes than the 618 needed for nomination. Most of the "sure" delegates were bound to Harry Truman by primary election pledges; the others could be "counted on" for delivery, however unhappily, by the big state machines...
...Harry Truman set out on his 17-day tour of the West, hundreds of the initiated swore they could hear tongues wagging across the capital in salvos like a 21-gun salute. The reason: three days before starting out, the President had notified Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath (who had planned the trip) that he and his professional politicos could not come along...
Washington speculation was based on three main theories: 1) that McGrath was left behind to justify charging the trip to the President's travel allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
...35th); would spend two nights with his old crony, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren. But Democratic professionals privately admitted that the junket was designed for only one reason: an attempt to beef up sickly Democratic morale. Taking no chances of skimpy crowds anywhere, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath sent out word to Government workers at every whistle stop that the President...
...Dawson '48, William P. Dole '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Jerome P. Gavin '50, Richard D. Hatton '49, John C. Hawkins '49, Arthur C. Hillwick '50, Frederick L. Holborn '49, Donald B. Louria '49, John G. Lowe, Jr. '49, John W. Mathews '50, Richard F. McGrath '49, Stedman B. Noble '49, Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, George Putnam, Jr. '49, Norman S. Rice '49, Robert W. Richardson '49, Evan H. Turner '49, Stanley H. Wald '47, George E. Weiner '46, John D. Young...